paraskeuē · day of preparation

What it means

paraskeuē (παρασκευή) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “day of preparation”.

Preparation: the day before the Sabbath, when everything was made ready.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The eve of the Sabbath or a feast, when everything was made ready.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• day of preparation ×4
• Preparation ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×1
• Mark×1
• Luke×1
• John×3

• Matthew 27:62

  Now on the next day, which is after the Preparation, the high priests and the Pharisees gathered before Pilate

• Mark 15:42

  And when evening had already come, since it was the day of Preparation, which is the day before the Sabbath,

• Luke 23:54

  And it was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.

• John 19:14

  Now it was the day of preparation of the Passover; it was about the sixth hour. And he says to the Jews, “Look, your king!”

• John 19:31

  So the Jews, since it was the day of preparation, so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath day was a great one), asked Pilate that their legs be broken and that they be taken away.

• John 19:42

  So there, because of the day of preparation of the Jews, since the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.